HELLO MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS
MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION ROCKS!
I am a long-time medical transcriptionist and I love my job. For a long time I dreamed about having a job that allowed me to work from home but was nervous about giving up the guaranteed income of the job I had for a home business or self-employment. I didn’t want to waste time or money on some work at home scam so I just kept dreaming. When my sister-in-law graduated from a medical transcription program and got a job right out of school I knew I had to find out more. Here’s my story.
THE MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION PROFESSION
Each time a physician sees a patient a summary of that visit is placed in the patient’s chart. Typically the summary or note is dictated and the report typed by a medical transcriptionist. Physicians in every clinical setting and medical specialty utilize transcriptionists in their practice. The terminology used by physicians is different from everyday speech and often quite complex so it is difficult to find medical transcription employment without training.
BECOME A MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST
Everybody is looking for a job that is safe from the economy. The medical field seems to offer the most recession proof jobs and the need for qualified medical transcriptionist continues to increase each year. Medical transcription instruction programs differ in tuition cost program duration. The choice of a training course should be based on the individual needs of the student.
WHY I LOVE BEING A TRANSCRIPTIONIST
As I said the medical field is stable. My husband got laid off when his company closed while my doctors are still going strong. Another benefit of my job is with no commute I don’t have to deal with the price of gas and in fact gave up my car two years ago. Another bonus is that the job is interesting. I hear and type some downright amazing and bizarre things.
MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION RESOURCE SITE
I love my job so much that I want to encourage anyone interested in medical transcription employment and those employed in medical transcription. This site offers tips on medical transcription employment, medical transcription training courses and medical transcription tax deductions and transcription business expenses. You will also find a medical transcription reference site with information such as eponymous physical examination terms, eponymous diagnosis list and a directory of hospitals by state. I to pass on some medical transcription tips such as information on developing a free word expander in Microsoft word as well as using Microsoft word as a free spell checker and free grammar check program.
TRANSCRIPTIONology
Ology is a medical suffix that means branch of knowledge. Transcription is my branch of knowledge. I have set up my site to offer you knowledge in categories such as PRODUCTIONology with ways to increase transcription speed and medical transcription earnings. Under RFERENCEology I have posted medical transcription reference material such as state hospital lists, eponymous medical terms, a list of muscles in the body, a list of bones in the body and much, much more.
MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST FORUM
I hope to hear from you! Medical transcriptionists what do you like or hate about your job? Are you looking for advice on a legitimate work from home job or medical transcription instruction courses? Are you seeking medical transcription employment with no experience and opportunities for entry level medical transcription jobs? Post your thoughts under CHATology or email me at lori@transcriptionology.com
Thank you so much for your website. It is a wonderful site and has helped me tremendously! I will continue to come back here over and over. It is so informative.
I will be enrolling at Career Step shortly and I will be taking their Medical Transcription Editor course. It is scarey because although I have over 40 yrs. of office/typing experience, I am 60 yrs. old and am not sure I could get a transcription job that pays a decent wage. However, I am moving forward because it is necessary at the moment. Again, thank you for all your help.
Best of luck to you. I took the Career Step course for MT and thought it was really good. While doing research on entry-level MT opportunities I found out that Career Step has a reciprocal agreement with a couple of the larger transcription agencies to hire their graduates, which in my mind makes the course worthwhile. Again, good luck!
A million thanks for potisng this information.
Dear Sir,
We are medical transcription organization in India (Hyderabad) and we have a very strong team with good experience and excess capacity. We will be glad to take up transcription work/projects. We would like to know transcription and VRE line rate details. Please contact us for a quotation and further discussion.
Thanks & Regards
NAGARAJU. M
http://www.sbinfomedical.in
Cell: +91 9866996142
Office: 040 23706142.
I have read a lot of inforamation about medical transcription, and only a few articles such as these gave me a significan and relevent insight about medical transcripiton. many thanks to your article. please give me more information about medical transcription. I want to know more.
I am a single mom of 3 small children and daycare is not cheap, I am in the process of looking for a job. This seems too good to be true; work from home, avoid the high cost of day care and also enjoy what I do….I would love to know more. Thank you for your time.
Stacy Bell
to stacy bell- medical transcription certainly isn’t the highest paying career but there are some real benefits to working from home such as avoiding a commute and the high price of gas, no work wardrobe required and in your case not having to pay for day care. check out the “become a medical transcriptionist” page for the various ways to get into the field.
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i love this site!!
This website is the really good.
I recently took an early retirement after 20 years of nursing and am looking to start a new career. After researching your site I think medical transcription might be just the thing. I really can’t take the physical aspect of nursing anymore and was looking for something more sedentary. Can you recommend a MT course for someone like me?
Rosana – I think transcription would be an excellent choice for you. With all your nursing expereince I’m sure you would breeze through the anatomy and medical terminology. I don’t know enough about the courses available to make an informed endorsement but I was very pleased with the Career Step course that I took. The course was broken down into modules that were self-paced and as I said somebody with your nursing expereince could probably skip the modules they are proficient in.
I’m a long-time MT and really like my job but never even dreamed of developing a website for other MT’s. It’s a really good site!
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Hi, I like your site! I have worked as a transcriptionist for a family practice from 1993-2000. I have since been working at a University Hospital in oncology working on clinical research protocols. I would like to go back to transcription so I can work from home. Do you have any suggestions on how I can refresh my skills and familiarize myself with the new software that companies are using now? I have no doubt that I can transcribe accurately and efficiently, but I need to be able to market myself (I type 90 wpm). Any suggestions would be really appreciated. Thanks
If i were in your position i would look into becoming certified. the 7 years you spent as a transcriptionist certainly speaks for your abilities and a recent certification indicates that you have kept the skills current. with regard to software most companies have their own preference and training is provided for new hires. these programs are typically very user freindly. In my case i send/receive files through an FTP site to my employer. I type all my reports using microsoft word, which has so many great features that i included using word in my transcription tips.
Kudos to the website. I hear of so many people interested in becoming transcriptionist that I am afraid the market will be flooded. Do you see that as a real possibility? Also, is billing and coding an area that will have the best chance of finding a position? I only ask, because I am in my late 50′s, with many years of administrative work and would like to have a change. (Mid life career change
. Finally, do you think “Dragon” software will affect the transcriptionist business?
Career Step appears to be an excellent school and would be my choice.
Thank you for providing such valuable and helpful knowledge. I guess we get a little skittish in our career choice with today’s economy. Ollie_B
The demand for trained medical transcriptionists is predicted to increase through the next decade. Dragon and other speech recognition programs are sure to have a huge impact. Some physicians will resist of course but most will probably transition to voice recognition in coming years. However, for the sake of accuracy reports generated through speech recognition need proofreading. Transcriptionists who embrace this technology and become comfortable with editing will survive in teh transcription industry. as to thequestion of billing/coding versus transcription training i would jump at a course that combined the 2 programs just from an employability standpoint. Good luck in whatever you choose!
I also took the Career Step mt course and was very satisfied.
i took the career step course 3 years ago and got a job right off. i think career step has a coding course too.